LaCie 2big Firmware Update

How to update the Firmware on an old LaCie network drive.

Hardware: LaCie 2 big Network v.2 2 TB Gigabit Ethernet Professional 2-Bay RAID Hard Drive 301507U 

Purchase date: February 2011

Current firmware version: 2.2.9.3 (applied in 2012)

Latest firmware version: 2.2.13.3 (released in 2015)

Current date: January 2024

Process:

Firmware updates 2.2.10.1, .2.12.2, and 2.2.13.3 are currently (still) available from LaCie here:

https://www.lacie.com/support/network-storage/2big-network-2/

The first two updates need to be installed using the LaCie Network Assistant tool which I found on a download site. The tool no longer works on macOS since support for 32 bit apps was dropped. I installed it on a VirtualBox running Windows 7. Set the networking to use a "Bridged Adapter" to get network shares working. Use the tool to apply the updates:

The 2.2.13.2 update can be installed by coping the file to a specific location on the drive. See the PDF file in the zip for details.

Truncate docker logs

Set $id to the container id prefix and then run:

file=`sudo docker inspect --format='{{.LogPath}}' ${id}`
sudo truncate -s 0 $file

Angular 2 and jsPlumb

Here's an example showing how to start using jsPlumb with Angular 2.

Create a new project using the Angular CLI and add the jsPlumb package:

    ng new PROJECT_NAME
    cd PROJECT_NAME
    npm install jsplumb --save

Add the jsPlumb script to angular-cli.json:

    "scripts": [
      "../node_modules/jsplumb/dist/js/jsplumb.min.js"
    ],

Modify the app component:

    import { Component, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';

    declare var jsPlumb:any;

    @Component({
      selector: 'app-root',
      template: '<div #test>Test</div>'
    })
    export class AppComponent {
      @ViewChild('test') testEl;
      ngAfterViewInit() {
        let me = this;
        jsPlumb.ready(function() {
          jsPlumb.addEndpoint(me.testEl.nativeElement);      
        }); 
      }

Run the server:

    ng serve 

Visual Studio Code

VS Code is a Free, Lightweight Tool for Editing and Debugging Web Apps.

Visual Studio Code 1.0.0 was released in March 2016 and it's the best thing I've seen from Microsoft in a while. Definitely worth checking out: https://code.visualstudio.com/

Angular 2 Text Field Autocomplete

 Similar to Facebook mentions, adds auto-complete to text boxes and text fields:

Angular 2 Mentions on Github

Angular 2 Radio Buttons

Until they fix checkboxes to use ngModel binding (here), this works pretty well:

<input type="radio" [checked]="selectedType=='first'" value="first" (click)="selectedType='first'"> First
<input type="radio" [checked]="selectedType=='second'" value="second" (click)="selectedType='second'"> second
{{selectedType}}

GitHub Primer

Clone a repo:

git clone https://github.com/username/repo.git

To see the status of files:

git status

To commit changes:

git commit

Config git for a push:

git config --global user.name "username"
git config --global user.email "username@users.noreply.github.com"

To see the config:

vi ~/.gitconfig

To undo a git push
(from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1270514/undoing-a-git-push):

git push -f origin 67..dc:master